List all files (recursively) in a directory

Directory listing

Use the ioutil.ReadDir function in package io/ioutil. It returns a sorted slice containing elements of type os.FileInfo.

The code in this example prints a sorted list of all file names in the current directory.

files, err := ioutil.ReadDir(".")
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}
for _, f := range files {
	fmt.Println(f.Name())
}

Example output:

dev
etc
tmp
usr

Visit all files and folders in a directory tree

Use the filepath.Walk function in package path/filepath.

• It walks a file tree calling a function of type filepath.WalkFunc for each file or directory in the tree, including the root.
• The files are walked in lexical order.
• Symbolic links are not followed.

The code in this example lists the paths and sizes of all files and directories in the file tree rooted at the current directory.

err := filepath.Walk(".",
	func(path string, info os.FileInfo, err error) error {
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	fmt.Println(path, info.Size())
	return nil
})
if err != nil {
	log.Println(err)
}

Example output:

. 1644
dev 1644
dev/null 0
dev/random 0
dev/urandom 0
dev/zero 0
etc 1644
etc/group 116
etc/hosts 20
etc/passwd 0
etc/resolv.conf 0
tmp 548
usr 822
usr/local 822
usr/local/go 822
usr/local/go/lib 822
usr/local/go/lib/time 822
usr/local/go/lib/time/zoneinfo.zip 366776

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